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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.
Early in the morning... |
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Indian America from 1890 to the Present
DAVID TREUER · Riverhead Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.
The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American... |
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
KARA COONEY · National Geographic
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.
Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient... |
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Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Matti Friedman · Algonquin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff--but it's all true.
The four spies at the center of this story were part of a ragtag... |
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Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day
Giles Milton · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied - and Axis - forces.
An epic battle that involved 156,000 men, 7,000 ships and 20,000 armoured vehicles, D-Day was, above... |
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